Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: The US Empire Facing Devastating Defeat

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  • @erikred8217
    @erikred8217 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +23

    Three heroes. if only for the truth.

  • @Memovox
    @Memovox ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +46

    You can either have a US military base in your country, or you can have democracy. You can't have both.

    • @djmarti7773
      @djmarti7773 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +9

      100% fact..

    • @jacquelineperet6599
      @jacquelineperet6599 47 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +3

      💯✅️💯✅️

    • @bhhaaaal
      @bhhaaaal 41 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +3

      *sovereignty

    • @bhhaaaal
      @bhhaaaal 40 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +2

      *sovereignty

    • @bilbo8530
      @bilbo8530 38 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      democracy is a LIE, but you don't know it.

  • @jf7558
    @jf7558 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +14

    Great analysis by two of the most educated, unbiased, and intellectual minds in the world.
    Thank you, Nima, for inviting Mr Wolff and Mr Hudson to your program.

    • @ricardocima
      @ricardocima 27 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      LOL yeah very unbiased.

  • @bettymagpali5079
    @bettymagpali5079 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +12

    I love Richard Wolff. His explanations are clear and simple and animated. This is how I speak about world events. I’m 67 going on 900. We are the only country on the planet where you can graduate from high school without knowing how to read. YOUR Government wants you dumb. It’s working. We are the only country on the planet to take our shoes off at the airport which is silly and meaningless. I have 20 years experience in the airline industry, internationally. I’ve witnessed our country destroy the planet so don’t talk to me about climate change.

  • @soccerjazz2022
    @soccerjazz2022 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

    Historic show again. So well, clear and strongly outspoken. Kudos kudos kudos for your intelligent guests, Nima❣️

  • @HarunsWorkouts
    @HarunsWorkouts ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +17

    I like Richard Wolfe's emphasizing.
    Good talk 👍

  • @garyclouse7234
    @garyclouse7234 59 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +6

    There are people that are so unaware of their situation that they lie when EVERYBODY around them considers what they say as an OBVIOUS lie!

  • @deathless3518
    @deathless3518 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +20

    Yeah America fighting in the Middle East for 20 years to achieve nothing was so much better than Russia’s record

    • @handl3869
      @handl3869 5 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      The worst part is that the US has been doing it for the sole benefit of isreal.

  • @sebolddaniel
    @sebolddaniel ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

    Excellent discussion.

  • @stevefirst1512
    @stevefirst1512 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +28

    That sullivan believes any negotiations must be on ukraines terms is disingenuous. He knows darn well what the story is. What an idiot.

    • @a.randomjack6661
      @a.randomjack6661 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

      And a proud member of this pathocracy (look it up)

    • @bilbo8530
      @bilbo8530 32 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      @@a.randomjack6661 How about "Loseocracy" does it work?

  • @JessicaDaletski
    @JessicaDaletski ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

    Thanky Nima i love these guys! Brilliant!

  • @imalittlechloe
    @imalittlechloe ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +9

    My favorites!!

  • @Peter-m5n7m
    @Peter-m5n7m 57 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +4

    Professor Wolff,
    Please, don't hold back. Tell us how your really feel about Jake "the snake" Sullivan! Love your knowledge and passion!
    Merry Holidays! 🍾

  • @sheilahunter9426
    @sheilahunter9426 43 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +3

    My favourite gentlemen ❤️❤️ THANKYOU...

  • @CK-jo9im
    @CK-jo9im 40 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +6

    If Jake Sullivan think that we are all stupid like his fellow western warmongers, then tell him he is a foolish embarrassment. Just tell him that on my behalf.

  • @AretiSpyropoulos
    @AretiSpyropoulos ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

    My dudes! They make my thursday evenings. TY.

    • @mollymcgreevy1176
      @mollymcgreevy1176 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      fireside chats for modern times

  • @EsW865
    @EsW865 45 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +2

    Great discussion. Thank you Nima & guests.

  • @NorthernNevadan-x2k
    @NorthernNevadan-x2k ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Dr Wolff deserves a Nobel!

    • @ricardocima
      @ricardocima 26 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      Nobel Prize for predicting US collapse every week for the past 3 decades LOL

  • @ibrahimdihum9127
    @ibrahimdihum9127 56 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +2

    Thank you Nima for the great show keep up the good work

  • @Nobody-zv5lp
    @Nobody-zv5lp ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

    Great show Nima with two of my favorite economists. Got great insight why General Igor Kirillov was killed. It will be interesting to see what is presented by the Russians at the UN and US's reaction to it.

  • @jk-mm5to
    @jk-mm5to 49 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +5

    Sullivan is a ghoul.

  • @mormormormor1400
    @mormormormor1400 14 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +1

    Yes Nima is a brilliant interviewer. Leading softly and always letting the guests finish their thread weaving thoughts. You should start a school for journalist on how to combine humility with self-awareness, integrity and a passion for knowledge and service to humanity. And you two, Michael and Richard could work there, and give the adepts a sense of how wisdom comes into the picture. Thank you all three for enlightening us. You bring hope! ❤

  • @Raymond-d2l7n
    @Raymond-d2l7n ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    According to Daniel Davis, US army (retired) the actual figures for casualties in this war are, Ukraine, I million plus, Russia, 82,000. Figures gleaned by an English website from online death notices (including Facebook) So the kill-rate is roughly 8 to 1 in favour of Russia.

  • @mathiswiss3305
    @mathiswiss3305 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +18

    Brilliant 👏👍
    Thank you Nima for your great shows and highly interesting guests.
    Merry Christmas 🎄 and best wishes to you and all viewers from Switzerland 😃🇨🇭

    • @JessicaDaletski
      @JessicaDaletski ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      Merry Christmas to u

  • @djmarti7773
    @djmarti7773 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +16

    Is this american loopy.. russia is winning not america..and nato will not be there..this guy is talkin oot his erse
    .

  • @jacquelineperet6599
    @jacquelineperet6599 48 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +4

    Thank you Nima for your brilliants guests
    The collective west is insulting Mr Xi Jing Ping and Mr Putin's intelligence each time they open their mouth LOL LOL

  • @a.randomjack6661
    @a.randomjack6661 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    M I D
    Most Important Discussion 👍

  • @catherinehughes7519
    @catherinehughes7519 12 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    These three guys are like the three wisemen from the West instead of East. This planet will be great again because of the goodness of men like these.

  • @genome34
    @genome34 28 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Man great job, you have been doing shows non stop, thank you.

  • @bilbo8530
    @bilbo8530 39 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +2

    RW said it so well "a loser" !

  • @halon7476
    @halon7476 57 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +7

    Sullivan is on drugs

    • @calicocat8213
      @calicocat8213 55 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      Human brain is capable of producing powerful substances on its own, that's how various cults work.

  • @punapeter
    @punapeter 37 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +2

    It's always about the oil. The whole History of the Middle East once oil was discovered and became the main energy source. No one cared in the 1700's about those deserts.

  • @RobertaSirgutz
    @RobertaSirgutz ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

    Sullivan is, primarily, looking for a new job.

    • @marcobsomer5574
      @marcobsomer5574 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      et il agite désespérément les bras !

    • @calicocat8213
      @calicocat8213 52 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +2

      A Think-tank perhaps, or a teaching position?

    • @handl3869
      @handl3869 4 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      A cable news comentator.

  • @farishtajebran7317
    @farishtajebran7317 14 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you Nima, Michael and Richard🙏✌🏻🫶

  • @earthwitch61
    @earthwitch61 28 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +1

    The U.S. is flailing. All the way around. Period. Thank You Gentlemen from the U.S. ☮️🪔

  • @zxratd
    @zxratd 14 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Awesome intellectual discussion.

  • @Kollenda1
    @Kollenda1 15 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you, Gentlemen!

  • @jonathanblack3
    @jonathanblack3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Jake, blue suit with brown shoes ! What ?

  • @deva8347
    @deva8347 15 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Michael has his finger on the pulse tonight 🤔 Great analysis TY

  • @alseaquist6192
    @alseaquist6192 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    US state dept. adolescence...

  • @pausereflect5911
    @pausereflect5911 47 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +1

    It's not 🚫 UA it NATO!

  • @picandvideo
    @picandvideo ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    USA should introduce exceptionalism by annex Canada. 🤔

  • @AtlantaBill
    @AtlantaBill 50 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +3

    The Donbass was a Russian region the Bolshevik Government gave to Ukraine in c. 1919 so Ukraine would have the industrial and mineral resources to be a successful nation. Crimea was ALWAYS Russia, defended with Russian blood, until Krushchev gave it to his native Ukraine as a gift, not changing much at the time because both were autonomous regions of the USSR.

    • @jacquelineperet6599
      @jacquelineperet6599 39 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      History is knowlege!

    • @cheeto8960
      @cheeto8960 24 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      Crimea belonged to dozens of peoples before slavs

    • @AtlantaBill
      @AtlantaBill 17 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      @@cheeto8960 Well, if you go back centuries, every region was occupied by someone else. In the 15th century, Crimea was a trading hub through which Slavic women were delivered to the Ottoman Empire as slaves.

  • @ralphbernhard1757
    @ralphbernhard1757 48 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +1

    The people of the Greater Middle East, including the Levant (most of whom are Semites, and the followers of Abrahamic religions) have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries. *Because it is easier to divide people based on personal differences, than it is to unite them, based on what they have in common.* Strategically ambiguous outsiders make use of this, for own advantages. In the era of empires, first Rome/Constantinople, then during WW1 the seat of POWER playing these games changed to London/Paris (Sykes-Picot/Balfour Declaration/WW1), then after the 1950's as European colonialism's power decreased, starting around the time a bark by Washington DC in 1956 (Suez Crisis/War) showed who the new boss was, the role of divider was simply taken over by Washington DC (the entire ME was the playground during the Cold War). Now the intention is simply to avoid unity in the ME, in order to _rule over the dissent_ which is classical divide-and-rule. Today, their leaders are ALL tools. Draw lines on the map without asking any of those affected. Exploit and foster endless wars, meddle for constant dissent.
    *Divide-and-rule connects the dots on the timeline of history.*
    Who has had (in all historical cases in the ME/Levant) the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of distance from the events resulting out of the own meddling and political activities, being able to reach all the other regions, but could not be reached itself as hegemony, at any given point of a historical timeline? Pax Romana, Rome. Pax Britannica, London. Pax Americana, Washington DC. All they ever wanted was *pax,* because they said so, but who picks up the *pieces of great wealth and the systemic gains* when all the others can be avoided from uniting?
    *Different Empires. Different era. Same games...*
    -------------------------------------
    The people of the Africa have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries. Tribalism makes it easy to divide people, then keep them poor under the "kind foot" of exploitation. In the era of empires, first Rome/Constantinople in North Africa, then during the era of Western imperialism the seat of POWER playing these games changed to the USA/Europe, then after the 1950's as European colonialism's power decreased, Africa was the playground during the Cold War. Once the dividers had reached peak power for themselves, by simply drawing lines on the map without asking any of those affected (Congo Conference/1884) the own systems of gain could siphon off wealth like a giant vacuum cleaner. The intention was simply to avoid unity in Africa, in order to _rule over the dissent_ which is classical divide-and-rule. During the Cold War, Moscow took on the role of arming the resistance to the colonial dividers. Today, all African dissenters fighting against unity, including some of Africa's own greedy corrupt leaders, are ALL tools. Endless wars, constant dissent.
    _Give the weak mind money, and they will dance for the outside dividers..._
    *Divide-and-rule.*
    Oldest trick in the book...
    Different people and systems. Different places on the map. Same games.
    --------------------------------------
    The people of the Americas, including the USA, have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries. In the beginning stages of era of European Imperialism, first Spain and Portugal entered the Americas, employing the divide-and-rule technique of top-down power on the local systems (Aztecs/Incas), and as European colonial powers' influence decreased during the 19th century, the role of divider was simply taken over by Washington DC. As the own power increased incrementally, the entire world became the playground after around 1900. Today, it is the globalists who employ imperialist tools to play divide-and-rule games on their neighbours.
    *Forget nukes. The divide-and-control/rule/conquer strategy is the most powerful force on the planet, because it can be employed equally in times of peace to CONTROL, in times of crises to RULE, and in times of war to CONQUER.*
    Ever since the two-faced snake slithered down that tree of unity (fable), speaking out of both sides of the mouth (lies, deceit), the wisest human beings have fruitlessly warned, and the easily divisable have continuously been warned against divisions within a peaceful status quo. When you bow to the division caused by deception, you will lose the good life..."and much that once was, is lost; for none now live who remember it." Such divisions create GAIN for OUTSIDERS (Eden as a system divided by lies and deceit).
    Now the intention is simply to avoid unity in the Americas, in order to rule over the dissent which is classical divide-and-rule. Endless wars on anything and everything from "drugs" to "terror" (sic.), constant dissent with everything's a war war war...
    Insert levers of lies, mistrust. The *two-party-duopoly* is two cheeks of the same hind which set out to create favourites: Favouritism, by granting access to the own POWER/WEALTH, to those who volunteer to act as proxies and extensions for the own power projection. The small picture lives of domestic political chaos, of the big picture reality of international insanity. Point the systemic (MSM) finger, everywhere else, by use of the own paid stooges of power by presenting their deep state-orchestrated three-letter-agency astroturfed violence on multiple tiers as being the reactions of "the poor oppressed people, who need our help for freedom and democracy" (sic.). Liars, deceivers, creators of the BLACK LEGEND for the "other side".
    *In February 1948, George F. Kennan's Policy Planning Staff said: "[W]e have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. ... Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity."* Kennan: A prototype GLOBALIST. And that is what they did to increase their own wealth. Set up people against each other, then siphon off the wealth of entire regions of the planet.
    *And that is what you are fighting for. That is what the hegemon has always done, pretending to be the "good pax", but playing "good cop/bad cop" with the world, from a position of power.* In the past, the "good cops" were the INTERNATIONALISTS, and the "bad cops" were the IMPERIALISTS. In the present that has morphed into the "good cops" being the GLOBALISTS/NEOLIBS, and the "bad cops" being the NEOCONS. Name-branding and doublespeak for the slumberland plebs, enchanted by their "bread-and-circuses"-existences.
    America's friends and self-proclaimed default rivals in Eurasia are still being burnt to ensure this disparity continues, with a (quote) "pattern of relationships" which are beneficial to the own rule. Set up European and Eurasian nations (including the Middle East/North Africa) against each other. It is how divide-and-rule is implemented. The imperialist playbook of Great Britain and the USA for more than 100 years. Read Halford Mackinder (Pivot of History, 1904) and Zbigniew Brzezinski (Grand Chessboard, 1997) regarding Eurasia for the template. Read W.T. Stead (Americanization of the World, 1901) for the guideline of political-, cultural- and economic capture. Read Smedley-Butler (War is a Racket) for the modus operandi of imperialism/militarism.
    Some say Europe is a divine goddess. I say, it is a humble apple tree, from an allegory as old as modern civilizations, because it is easy to divide.
    *Divide and Rule.*
    Oldest trick in the book...
    Four corners of the globe. Different cultures and religions. Same games.
    THE LINK OF THE WORLD.
    The entire system they favor in the USA/collective West is based on a pre-set *managed and moderated division,* for the benefit of a very few at the top of the pyramids accompanied by the often-repeated nice-sounding storyline. Create the script of the own heroes. Their entire scripted money-funded history sounds like a Hollywood superhero movie that sounds too good to be true. Guess what? It is. It is what they are NOT telling you, that they try to hide.
    Who wields the POWER? Who has had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being able to reach all the other little buck catchers (tools, and other Roman-era style instruments of POWER), but could not be reached itself, because of a geographical-, technological-, organizational-, military-, strategic-, political advantage at any given point of a historical timeline? Create the default rival/enemy on their own marching routes. It is usually the power most likely to succeed which is determined as the default rival/enemy. Notice how, as soon as a rival starts mass-producing products high up in the value chain of capitalism, and starts vying for markets, and becomes successful, it immediately becomes the systemic rival, and is then geopolitically encircled by the greater empire. It happened around 1900, as Germany started building high-value products, and it happened around 2000, as China started moving away from building cheap toys and labor intensive kitchen appliances...
    The games start on the home turf. The first victims are their own people in the USA/collective West, locked in the eternal struggle for wealth and personal gain which they have been deceived into thinking is "good greed", but which WILL be exploited by the snakes who deceive them on the domestic tier of the divide-and-rule system of power. Because ..."most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place." - Walter E. Williams
    *War is a great **_divider._** It goes straight through the heads of millions and billions of people from the very top tiers, right down to the individual level. War divides alignments and alliances, goes straight through organizations, divides political parties, tears through families, and finally at the very bottom tier, goes straight through individual hearts and minds as individuals struggle with themselves.*

  • @deva8347
    @deva8347 23 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Richard was on fire 🔥☄️💥 today 😂

  • @catkins500
    @catkins500 17 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    I think the 3 of you are a marriage made in heaven! I sooo look forward to your pithy discussions!

  • @manitheman0806
    @manitheman0806 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

    Lying on steroids

  • @stevefirst1512
    @stevefirst1512 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

    Nima. Time limits. Wolff needs to let Hudson talk more or put these guys on separately one after the other. Hudson has the kind of history that jeff sachs speaks of. He was there when the soviet union dissolved. I like wolff but this format stifles hudson.

  • @plaubelmakina8916
    @plaubelmakina8916 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Left to his own devices, Wolff would not stop talking at all.

  • @aliissa6739
    @aliissa6739 22 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Richard holds the mic for 20 minutes

  • @timewaitsfornosl_vê
    @timewaitsfornosl_vê 4 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Mr Sullivan, this is not a great way to vanguish the anxiety the people feel. They'd rather you scrap this endeavour and mind wipe all watching back to sleep

  • @jackshultz2024
    @jackshultz2024 18 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Question for Jake Sullivan - how is it that in 2024 the Russian economy grew 3.9% while the US economy, which was leading growth among the G7, grew 2.8%.
    It seems that judging from this data that the policy was a failure.

  • @ricardocima
    @ricardocima 30 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Richard Wolff: predicting US collapse every week for 30 years now. LOL

    • @ERH-ph5gb
      @ERH-ph5gb 11 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      you believe it happens within months? weeks?

  • @ronnysmobilephone
    @ronnysmobilephone ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +7

    The people in the audience of thqt show are 4 year old little children... Alon an ittelectual basis...

  • @punapeter
    @punapeter 36 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +1

    YES Michael we like Nima a LOT BETTER than Judge Nap. I think those who have heard both would agree.

  • @certificated
    @certificated 26 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +1

    Fool fool fool Sullivan you think we are fools just like bidwin and biliken

  • @joejimbo9907
    @joejimbo9907 30 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    LOL So is Canada in the drivers seat as well.

  • @fawadali135
    @fawadali135 20 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Not a Trump supporter but once the truth comes out, they will pin it on Trump.

  • @markcutts383
    @markcutts383 3 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Biden is giving the Lawnmower back he borrowed four years ago.
    ' Might need a drop of WD- 40 though and a few new blades.'
    Said Joe.
    ' Hey - and you can even mow my lawn too'

  • @billwilson3665
    @billwilson3665 8 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    So is all economic growth equal? Can we really compare U.S economic growth to Chinese economic growth?

  • @hugoc1861
    @hugoc1861 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Did he said Syria EU what

  • @AttentionDeficitDemocracy
    @AttentionDeficitDemocracy 13 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Jake Sullivan said Ukraine will not have an outcome imposed upon it, i.e. Ukraine can't lose.

  • @ricardocima
    @ricardocima 28 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Nima, as an iranian, which one do you hate more? USA or free women? How can you cope with brazilian carnival, being a medieval person?

  • @bradploof9796
    @bradploof9796 22 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Sounds like his nanny Hillary 😅

  • @inner-sanctum
    @inner-sanctum 24 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    The US stockmarket will crash badly soon.

  • @merfymac
    @merfymac ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    I’ll say again: reducing two of the world’s best economists to answering questions about current news cycle ephemera is a SCANDALOUS waste of their brainpower.

    • @hathawayrose2183
      @hathawayrose2183 49 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      Yet they both make far more sense than all the politicians of the west put together....and that's why they are worth listening to.

    • @merfymac
      @merfymac 31 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      Michael Hudson:
      #1 17:37 - 28:34
      #2 38:18 - 43:35
      #3 50:36 - 55:50
      #4 1:00:12 - 1:01:37
      #5 1:03:43 - 1:06:37

  • @stevefirst1512
    @stevefirst1512 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    Nima, at least one of these guys im pretty sure is a jew. Hannukah and christmas i believe fall on the same day. Here, the woke thing to say is just "happy holidays" just sayin my friend😁

    • @AMPA33
      @AMPA33 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Hannukah is a made up holiday.

    • @plaubelmakina8916
      @plaubelmakina8916 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      Most Jews in the West celebrate Christmas just because it is so Awesome! Your woke BS belongs on other channels, not this one.

    • @deva8347
      @deva8347 25 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      The right thing to say is Happy Christmas 🎄 just saying my friend

  • @CamiloChaves-qk5wq
    @CamiloChaves-qk5wq 31 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Michael is fantastic. Richard is very mid